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all but the middle feathers passing gradually into dirty whitish 

 towards their extremity : beneath, the throat and belly white ; the 

 under tail-coverts edged with rufous ; the sides of the throat, and 

 the whole breast, black, the middle of the latter marked with oval 

 white spots. 



Bill and feet black ; irides dark brown. Lengfth 7 inches : wins: 

 3 ; tail 4, much graduated ; bill at front 9 or 10 mill. ; tarsus f . 



This species differs from L. fiiscoventris chiefly in the abdomen 

 being white instead of dusk}^ I have only found it on the 

 Neilgherries, at an elevation of 6,000 ft. or so, over the edges of 

 the hills. It has the usual habits of the genus, and utters a feeble 

 warbling song. It does not appear to have been procured elsewhere, 

 but will probably be found to extend along some of the higher 

 mountain ranges of the Malabar ghats. 



L. Javanica, found in Malayana, is very like this bird ; and several 

 other species are recorded from the islands as far as New Zealand. 

 The species of Rhipidura are chiefly from Australia and the 

 oceanic region '; but Bonaparte, in his Conspectus, following Sol. 

 Miiller, gives three species from Java and Sumatra. 



Gen. Chelidorhynx, Hodgson. 



Syn. Rliipidura apud Blyth. 



Char. — Bill short, broad, suddenly compressed at the tip, and 

 much deflected, barely notched; nostrils covered by long and fine 

 nareal bristles ; gape with long rictal bristles ; wings rounded, the 

 first four quills graduated ; tail long, rounded, firm ; tarsus rather 

 short ; feet feeble, lateral toes slightly unequal. 



Tliis type, though nearly allied to Leucocerca, differs both from 

 it and Rhipidura by its shorter bill, smaller size, and mode of colora- 

 tion, and in this appears to lead the way towards Cn/ptnloplia. 

 There is only one recorded species, which, by its colors, small size, 

 and social habits, may be said, in some measure, to tend to join the 

 Flycatchers to the sylvan Warblers Abrornis and Cidicipeta. The 

 same remark may be made of Crypiolopha ; and indeed Bonaparte 

 places this last genus next to Cidicipeta, and Swainson classed the 

 typical species of the latter genus under Cryptolopha. 



